Top 10 Personal Finance Blogs
In the current economic climate there's no shortage of argument about what governments, manufacturers and retailers should do. But where's the individual in all this? Fortunately, you can get a lot of sound, personal-scale advice on navigating to better financial health by visiting some of these blogs.
Wide-ranging discussion of saving money on goods, services, taxes and better home budgeting, plus how to make your money grow through a variety of instruments. Good all-around advice.
Trent Hamm blogs at length on finance with a more personal touch than many bloggers in this field--possibly because he once faced financial "armageddon" himself. Older but wiser, Hamm now dispenses advice, reviews a personal-finance book each week, and generally helps readers get back to or stay on a solid financial footing.
Financial planner Jeremy Vohwinkle helps Gen Xers sort out debt, careers and wealth accumulation. Forward looks for a generation that too frequently gets pegged as self-absorbed. (Part of the Money Writers http://www.themoneywriters.com/ network.)
As the name implies, this blog skews a bit younger but hews to the same type of mission: Get twentysomethings thinking carefully about their future and their long-term financial health. Helpful advice and financial news, with an emphasis on starting to save for retirement decades before the event.
Well-rounded site that offers personal-finance tutorials, advice on how to think about money, common-sense financial how-tos, and the occasional money-saving recipe. Heavy comment traffic by readers increases this blog's usefulness.
Focuses on financial firms, savings and debt instruments, and other financial terms. Discussion of the pluses and pitfalls of annuities, college savings accounts, brokerages, coupons, bond funds and more.
This blog on "Money and Finance in Silicon Valley" could easily apply elsewhere. Reviews various credit, debt and savings instruments along with online brokerages, and keeps readers up to date on policy and legal changes that could affect their finances.
One way to get ahead is by spending less, and this blog looks at all aspects of how money goes out the door and does something about it. Topics range from winterizing your home and the ROI of low-flow showerheads to using RSS feeds on Craigslist to get on edge on other buyers of your next used car.
Watch as Beks and her (suddenly unemployed) husband improvise to live below their means, pay off their debt, and deal with other issues that the recession has raised.
Discusses the figures and percentages that underpin financial decisions, such as how good a deal the compound interest on savings accounts is, the spreads on exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and how the RATE function in Excel can produce The Dollar Figure you need to save each month to have X dollars by retirement. An excellent call for the numbers-inclined.
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